Bathing-suit.



W. D. FORBES.

BATHING SUIT.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 16. 1912.

1,121,177. Patented Dec. 15.1914.

'I'INESSES: INVEN'LOR l jzmw UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER D. FORBES, OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

BATI-IING-SUIT.

Application filed September 16, 1912.

T allwizom it may concern Be it known that I, \VALTER D. F omsns, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oakland, in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bathing-Suits, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bathing suits. and in particular to that style of suits known as one-piece suits.

The object of the invention is to construct a close fitting one-piece swimming suit which will not hinder the free move ment of the limbs and in which the loose skirt portion which is now usually employed and required, may be entirely removed.

A further object of the invention is genorally to improve this class of swimming suits so as to reduce the weight and increase their utility and durability.

The invention further consists in the novel construction and arrangement of the parts, all of which will be hereinafter more par ticularly set forth in the following drawings, specifications and claims, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the application of the swimming suit. Fig. 2 is a cross section of a suit showing supplementary flaps 3 attached to the front and rear of the suit.

The object of this invention is to construct a oncplece swimming suit in which the free movement of the limbs of the swimmer will in no manner be retarded, and in which all excess material as the skirt por tion which is usually employed and required, may be removed, while still properly protecting the body. Vith this object in view, I have constructed a continuous onepiece suit 2, as shown in Fig. 1, in which the skirt portion is entirely removed, but in place of which and with the object in view of accomplishing the same purpose, I have applied a flap or apron portion 3, which may be sewed, or otherwise secured to the suit, as shown. A supplementary attachment of this nature accomplishes the object sought, much more effectively than the skirt portion now usually employed, as the skirt becomes Very easily disarranged when certain positions are assumed by the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 15, 1914.

Serial No. 720,437.

wearer. Displacement of the attachment here shown can not take place under any position, as the attachment is always held in position by being secured along the edges 4, 5, and G; the only free edge being the lower portion of same, which allows this to assume a straight line across this portion of the body. From this it can be seen that the object sought is more thoroughly accomplished than where the skirt is used, and

applied to both the front and rear portion of the suit, as shown in Fig. 2, and that various modifications of same may be constructed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As an article of manufacture, a one piece bathing suit forming shirt and trunks, and supplemental front and back apron portions lying in planes which are normally substantially parallel one to the other, the lines of the attachment of the sides of said aprons being substantially diametrically opposed lines on the opposite sides of the front and rear thigh portions of the trunks.

2. As an article of manufacure, a one piece bathing suit comprising a shirt and trunks, and a supplemental apron secured to the outside of the suit, said apron lying wholly in a plane which is normally substantially tangent to the front of the thighs of the wearer.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN H. HERRING, W. W. HEALEY. 

